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So here's my long, sad story. I bought my Wii from a friend about a year ago. He sold it to me for a very good price, but told me beforehand that it wouldn't play games. I thought I'd be able to fix it, so I took him up on the offer and bought the system. At this time, it was running 3.2u firmware, and was completely unmodified, at least to the best of my knowing. There was no Homebrew Channel on it. Also the official Nintendo default channels such as the Mii Channel, Weather, Forecast, and others that came with it were broken and threw up a black screen followed by "An error has occurred. Press the Eject button and power off" and WiiConnect24 would freeze with a black screen when I tried to enable it. However I didn't care too much, as my main intention was to hack the console, and so I upgraded from 3.2u to the current Nintendo 4.2u firmware. Then I used HackMii .6 to install Bootmii as Boot2 and IOS, and also installed the Homebrew Channel. I don't remember what version it was, but it wasn't 1.0.8 as I have now. I used the guide for 4.2u softmod on WiiHacks.com to do all of this. Once everything was installed, I still had the non-working channels and the Wii still wouldn't play disc games. A black screen bearing the words "An error has occurred" pops up when I insert a disc. It actually crashes the Wii system menu and everything.

I've had this problem ever since I bought this Wii, and have only been able to use homebrew software on it. I have installed USB-access IOSes to play music and read files off of USB and all, but I have not installed anything to boot commercial game files of of a USB drive. It may be illegal, and so I have not messed with it. I think it's pitiful that I'd have to stoop to pirating games just because I couldn't read normal game discs on my Wii. Lately I have become so frustrated I just kept my Homebrew Channel(1.0.8) and updated to Nintendo's official 4.3u firmware. I was hoping a new system menu from Nintendo would fix all the corruption or whatever that might be causing the disc read and channel errors.

I used the ModMii wizard to re-hack my 4.3u Wii to 4.1u, with a full soft-mod. I followed all directions ModMii gave me exactly, and everything installed correctly, except for Priiloader. It couldn't find some config INIs and therefore would not install. I still have the black screen channel problem and my Wii still won't play crap. I'm ready to throw it against the wall, but that won't solve anything. I even took it apart with my dad's help and replaced the laser in it. That fixed nothing. It's still broken like before, and I also saw that my friend may have gotten into the Wii before me, since we noticed some fingerprints around the laser area. I don't know what he did to the system. I just pray I can fix it. I don't really even know WHO did the system in, but oh well.

I should tell you I have a 4.2u unhacked NAND backup with the KEYS.BIN that I made shortly after installing BootMii as Boot2 for the first time. I hadn't hacked any more before making the backup. I should be safe in case something goes wrong. I already restored my Wii to that backup once, and have pretty much gone from there. After having to downgrade and upgrade my system menu so many times, I wanted to make sure I didn't screw up anything in my Wii. As I said, it's now running 4.1u system menu. ModMii made it install that(I chose 4.3u to 4.3u), and everything seems to be working as well as before. I REALLY REALLY want to play Super Mario Galaxy on my Wii, and would really appreciate any help to get this console working like new again. I don't know if the problem is hardware error or corruption in the software/firmware. It's not in the system menu, or upgrading would fix it. It's not the laser, or the new laser would fix it. It could be the drive assembly, but how am I supposed to know what is causing the problems?! Homebrew hasn't seemed to do much for it.

The weird thing is that after I wait awhile without using my Wii, which is very hard, actually, the channels will start working again. Sometimes I'm able to turn on WiiConnect24, and also am able to have unrestricted access to every single channel on my Wii. I usually have to wait a month or a week before this all works, but as you can see that is totally impractical for a general game-play schedule. Regardless of the working channels, my discs still error in the disc channel. It's a soft "The disc could not be read" or something error. WTF? I have some forwarder channels installed that link to homebrew, and all of those work 100 percent. Homebrew seems to be unaffected by my sad, diseased system.

So now I guess I will end by asking what I should do. It seems as if I am out of options and need to get a new system, but, is there hope? Thanks for reading, and I eagerly await your reply.

Im sorry but I refuse to read that much material. What the hell is the problem? what is not working? have you tried updating everything on the system I doubght that will fix the disc read problem but could. It's most likely the drive is dead buy a new one or get a wode.

I really have no idea what could be wrong with your wii but I know one thing, I would certainly give usb loading a try. Do you know you can back up your own disks through most usb loaders? Or would you consider that pirating. Usb loading beats using disks anyday.

That is one hell of a long winded post. Agreeing to a point. Its not that I refuse to read it, its just I don't know where in the world to start with an answer.

1) This is not semi bricked, you should edit the title.
2) This sounds like an IOS issue, it sounds like you would have ruled this out by using modmii though

A very good start for you, since you can launch homebrew, launch syscheck and post up a full system check.
To me this sounds like a case of this wii has been cioscorpped/darkcorped and now its in a fubar state and needs a fresh system menu install along with your IOS'.
Hopefully that syscheck should shed more light.

A laser/drive/disc problem would cause you no problem with things like the Mii channel so rule out a new drive.

Well thats weird. Dark/cios corp should be showing as all trucha bugged and nand access. Bit weird seeing it on random ios'.
I can see sort of issues, but I'm not 100% on how you fix em due to strange version numbers. Someone else should hopefully come along and help you more.
But I reckon a first good step would be reinstalling those IOS' that are saying trucha bug and nand access but under 200.

There is no need for trucha bug in any ios under 200. Anything like that and pretty certain its a corp fucked machine.

Dop mii may just work installing which ones are fucked. But I imagine the version number issue may cause you problems

The app itself is pretty self explainatory. The IOS manager lists all IOS's installed and their versions. The bottom of the screen gives you controls to delete, installer, upgrade and downgrade. The max'd out versions shouldn't be a problem. Give it a whirl and see how you go

The app itself is pretty self explainatory. The IOS manager lists all IOS's installed and their versions. The bottom of the screen gives you controls to delete, installer, upgrade and downgrade. The max'd out versions shouldn't be a problem. Give it a whirl and see how you go

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Okay. But how on earth do I keep from deleting or updating the wrong IOSes? I didn't see a guide. I have one Wii, and I don't want to update or delete the wrong thing or it's all over for me.

just use modmii it has a built in walkthrough of everything and even downloads and prepares the files for you. then just install all the .wad files you get and that should take care of your IOS trouble.

just use modmii it has a built in walkthrough of everything and even downloads and prepares the files for you. then just install all the .wad files you get and that should take care of your IOS trouble.

i agree with MauiFrog...this looks like a hardware failure issue....all software appears normal

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Well thats weird. Dark/cios corp should be showing as all trucha bugged and nand access. Bit weird seeing it on random ios'.
I can see sort of issues, but I'm not 100% on how you fix em due to strange version numbers. Someone else should hopefully come along and help you more.
But I reckon a first good step would be reinstalling those IOS' that are saying trucha bug and nand access but under 200.

There is no need for trucha bug in any ios under 200. Anything like that and pretty certain its a corp fucked machine.

this syscheck is as it should be....the "random" IOSes are in fact all system menu IOSes....patched with elevated version numbers to survive official updates....i would leave those alone....

If you don't want to do all that, you could try SNEEK or UNEEK. It emulates the wii, so you might not have all these problems. Just install a usb loader channel on your wii, and make backups and play from there.